Bringing bikes to the beck and call of flowers, we give to you the brains behind the flower delivery company with a difference, Petalon. Created by florist Florence Hill, it was a business plan that joined up all the dots: on hand bikes, the flower market around the corner, and a currently unsustainable yet popular industry of sending bouquets. Petalon

An estimated 400,000 tonnes of usable surplus food can be saved from UK supermarkets each year. Since May 2009, community based charity Foodcycle, have reclaimed over 130,000kg of surplus food from food retailers – the equivalent of saving 585,000kg in CO2 emissions. This week we are talking to Foodcycle’s Steven Hawkes about the charity that builds communities by combining volunteers, surplus food and spare

Design a light switch and save the planet DTGT and WWF-UK have teamed up ahead of Earth Hour on 28th March 2015 and are running a competition for young (16-25) creative talents around the country to design a light switch. The winning design will be chosen to headline the ’15 Everyday Things’ campaign in March 2015, in which

Getting crafty for Christmas To bring in the festive cheer this year, we have taken on our own challenge and have decided to have a go at making the Christmas poster. Armed with recycled scrap paper and pritt-stick, we launched our festive attack, squabbling over who will be taking home what (the santa-hat-pencil-top has caused some heated discussion).

My Cyber Monday struggle by Naresh Ramchandani Cyber Monday is upon us. Completing four days of rampant consumerism that began with Black Friday, it is our annual commercial clickfest, and boy do we splurge. On this day last year, the UK spent £10,000 every second, mostly on technotronica. And today we are likely to beat our previous record as

Today we’re teaming up with One Minute Briefs once again, and this time we’re asking you to advertise the wonders of staying at home for your summer holiday. There are some fantastic prizes to be won. Get thinking!

The Dirty Beach art collaboration between Lou McCurdy and Chloe Hanks has created an eye-opening exhibition in the playful guise of a supermarket to remind us of the need to cut down on our relentless plastic consumption.

Having travelled the world without boarding a single plane, Ed Gillespie put his life-changing challenge into words. We spoke to the Futerra co-founder, who have us his seven rules of slow travel to inspire us to ditch planes for a slower and more mindful way of seeing the world.

To combat throw-away culture, they have designed an ingenious wooden pencil which can be planted in a pot once it was been worn down to a stub. With a bit of love, water and sunshine, the pencil stub will grow, develop roots, and blossom into a fully-fledged plant that will provide fresh vegetables and herbs.

Yesterday we asked the One Minute Brief community to pedal their best ideas and produce an ad campaign to make cycling sexy – without any nudity. Having pulled in over 100 responses to our brief, OMB founders Nick Entwistle & James Clancy vowed to go biking in the buff but we’re yet to see any proof.

British poet Simon Armitage has crafted some striking poetry for a air pollution-defying installation at the University of Sheffield. “If every banner, flag or advertising poster in the country did this, we’d have much better air quality,” says Simon.

Earlier this year, WPP asked young creatives to create a campaign for Al Gore that not only makes people accept we have a problem, but persuades them to do something about it. Of course, we were eager to see what people would come up with, as ‘change habits, change the world’ is very much what we ask of contributors who tackle our Creativity V Climate Change brief. Here is a quick run through the seven savvy winners…

We paid tribute to one of the planet’s brightest brains in sustainability with a triptych of posters for Earth Day. The series were an even-handed collaboration between a group of creatives. The result? Well, see for yourself…

Today we are launching our 29 Posters for the Planet campaign with WWF-UK to inspire the world for Earth Hour and beyond. We will bring you a poster a day from creative legends like David Shrigley, Sir Paul Smith, Rankin and many others.

Our Earth Hour young creative competition closed on Monday the 13th January and drew 250+ responses to our Creativity v Climate Change brief. The judges have pick their six, and they’re all brilliant in their own right.